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Things that delight me: disenshittification, ballet, horror, strange dark mindbending art/stories, slow melancholy films, shoegaze, trip hop. Things that disgust me: scrum, licorice, fascism. she/her

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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 19h
Even "AI" is over the top marketing speak. It's prediction software. It's auto complete. It's statistics + data. It isn't powerful because of "intelligence." Its powerful because the statistics have a ginormous amount of data.
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A thing about smart people is that they can be exceptionally gifted at coming to a bad and wrong conclusion, and then coming up with ingenious ways to justify it.
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#ai
Boardroom Suggestion Comic Meme.
First panel: Guy asks the board "We have revolutionary prediction software, how should we use it?"
Second panel: First person answers "Automatically hire, hit military targets or approve bank loans based on the prediction." Second person answers "Predict how it would look if Frida Kahlo painted a cat on a bike and flood the internet with slop." Third person answers "Flag patients likely to get cancer. 
Predict the spread of a pandemic. Flag possible food deserts. Predict traffic to increase train availability."
Third panel: Third person is thrown out the window.
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"AI" is mostly prediction (advanced statistics with a huge amount of data). We don't hate prediction. We hate that some idiot decided: 1) To have a computer make important decisions based on a prediction (hiring, military targets, your feed). 2) It can predict text and images, let's call that art.
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sorry for sounding like a broken record but I can't STFU about how AI would have been amazing and we would have loved it if it wasn't being used in the stupidest evilest way possible. It's like the printing press was invented and the ruling class decided to use it to crush people to death.
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
AI application tier list Search: Revolutionary Prediction: Revolutionary Transformation (translation/speech-to-text/OCR): Revolutionary Route optimization: Revolutionary Generative anything: Stupid and evil Chatbots: Stupid and evil Decision-making: SO evil Agentic: Usually stupid, sometimes ok
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Is it ok to eat the rich at a job interview
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A 1966 chatbot ELIZA stated users' statements back as questions. The creator was shocked that people confided in it and attributed understanding and empathy to a trivial pattern-matching program. The Eliza Effect is the human tendency to read comprehension, intention, and mind into a machine.
en.wikipedia.org
ELIZA effect - Wikipedia
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I've been trying so hard to find a way to concisely explain what went wrong without anthropomorphizing the software. This guy finally nailed it.
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Three kids playing Mario with text
Thousands of lesswrong posts show my uncle works for nintendo
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Man at job interview with text:
Thousands of Lesswrong posts show this gap on my resume is because i signed an nda
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Long Feng from Avatar with text:
Thousands of LessWrong posts show there is no war in Ba Sing Se
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Many such cases. I always called this Richard Dawkins Syndrome. Sometimes Steven Levitt Syndrome. Should I start calling it Nate Silver Syndrome?
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Business idea (do not steal): Turn the entire planet into desert so you can generate emails
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Business idea (do not steal): Addiction
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Business idea (do not steal): Block access to something that people need and then charge for access
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Business idea (do not steal): Make a crisis on purpose and then buy stuff cheap from people who are now desperate
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Business idea (do not steal): Create a problem and then sell the solution Except don't solve it, not really. Keep the problem going so they keep buying the solution
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Business idea (do not steal): Underpay workers Overcharge consumers Dodge taxes
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I say I think I built a time machine in my basement so now I can get a bottle of Coke from when it still had cocaine in it Why hasn't The Verge covered this
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Are any psychologists studying the thing where the human brain goes mad if someone has a billion dollars
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Massaging the egos of rich dudes for money used to be a thriving industry done by humans. When are we going to talk about the mass job displacement now that this work is automated
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Someone once pointed out to me how wild it must have been for the first audience to see Bugs Bunny. You see a hunter approach a bunny and of course you think the bunny will be terrified and run away or freeze. Instead the bunny just casually eats a carrot and asks the hunter what's up.
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Their expertise is not in economics. Their expertise is in the field of marketing the idea that the wealthy and powerful deserve their wealth and power. It's unironically a difficult field to master. Lucrative field to have a job in if you're good at it though.
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Alan Woke 2 @mrpostsgood.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The Economist on Twitter, whining that Lenin called them "a journal which speaks for British Millionaires"
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is said by the same people who support parties that violate human rights, then say "It's shallow to stop being friends over politics." They think it's like picking a sports team. Then when they feel the oppression, they still can't acknowledge that's what the left was fighting the whole time.
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Now even AOC saying "The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom" Since those terms began in the French Revolution, right meant that a few guys at the top keep power and control over everyone else, and left has meant no they should not. Left vs right has always meant bottom vs top.
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Planet Money kills it every time but they killed it extra much today www.youtube.com/shorts/VV1F5...
youtube.com
What's a capital gains tax?
YouTube video by NPR's Planet Money
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The reason slipping on a banana peel is a cliché in old-school slapstick is because before disposable packages there were no public rubbish bins. So people would often toss banana peels on the road that would rot and get slippery. The first audiences who saw that bit found it relatable, not random.
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Can my cat please decide if he is going to be a beautiful majestic creature of elegance and grace or if he is going to be an absolute bonkers silly goose Make up your mind, dude
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Quick way to learn so, so much about someone: Ask them to name people they admire. Do they only name: - Those who have done something for them personally ("my mom," boss who promoted me, etc) - Those who look like them (same race, gender, background, personality type they see themselves as, etc)
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Government does thing because it wants to steer the economy and change how people behave. Everyone (even those who thinks it's a good thing): That's authoritarian. Corporation does thing because it wants to steer the economy and change how people behave. Everyone: That's freedom.
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Classic "You flip flopped when the situation changed or when new information was made available"
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
No I'm not showing you photo ID You are a website Are you out of your mind
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
God was like "Right then, Earth, send me your best singer, your best actor and your best philosopher."
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Replicants exist now. Humans have become hardware running the scripts they were programmed to run.
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Sorry for deleting typo'd posts and reposting Posting is hard 😅
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Common disconnect between left and right: When the left says "equality" they mean equal freedom, e.g. no one has power and control over others. When the right hears "equality" they hear equal wealth, e.g. everyone has the same amount of money. The left only cares about wealth as a side-effect 🧵
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Weird, I thought Fox didn't like AOC? Why are they suddenly giving her compliments?
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I remember when movies had me believing that the violent abusers I should watch out for would be in a trailer park wearing an undershirt. I would feel 100x safer having a beer with a guy in his trailer than at some rich dude's place.
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My childhood education: "Here are things that happened a long time ago like worker oppression, racism in the USA, and fascism in Europe." My adult life: Repeatedly realizing that those things are not over. Getting mad that the school system led me to believe those problems are done and over with.
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"Socialism requires a concentration of power" Capitalism requires a concentration of power. Socialism means decentralising power. Why is it that capitalists worst fear is that people learn what socialism is? Why is it so important to them that we have no idea what it means?
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It's like a dude who can't get his life together, so he starts mugging successful doctors, artists, engineers, designers, etc. Now he's going around bragging about how superior he is because he has everyone's phones and wallet.
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The rest of us white people awkwardly pulling this guy aside at the party and whispering "Pssst dude, you might not want to spread the idea that people can be divided into races and then ranked according to what their civilizations did, because we're gonna come out dead last."
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
How is it always white people saying that the success of a civilization tells us about that race's biological superiority? European civilizations and USA have been famously so incompetent that we had to expand into other people's places and extract what others built so we can stay alive.
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I won't shut up about this. AI is groundbreaking and revolutionary for prediction, searching information, and piecing together loose information in huge amounts of data. It is stupid at generating. We should be in an exciting technological revolution right now but rich people said no.
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
So is Elon safe or
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DrakenKnight @drakenknight.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Reminder:
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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
AI hasn’t changed software development like people think. AI exposed and supercharged a rot that was already growing in the industry. It sped up an inevitable collapse. 🧵
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